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Quotes About Regret

I figured this staying up meant something. Maybe it was loss or love or some other word that we say when it's too fucking late but the boys weren't into melodrama. They heard that shit and said no. Especially the Old Man. Divorced at twenty, with two kids down in D.C., neither of which he sees anymore. He heard me and said, Listen. There are forty-four ways to get over this. He showed me his bitten-up hands.
~ Junot Diaz
I figured this staying up meant something. Maybe it was loss or love or some other word that we say when it's too fucking late but the boys weren't into melodrama.
~ Junot Diaz
Then you look at her and smile a smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die.
~ Junot Diaz
But she was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.
~ Junot Diaz
We didn't know it was the last days but we should have.
~ Junot Diaz
Okay, we didn't work, and all the memories to tell you the truth aren't good. But sometimes there were good times.
~ Junot Diaz
She was the kind of girlfriend that god gives you young, so that you'll know loss the rest of your life.
~ Junot Diaz
Later when he thought about it he realized that these very cousins could have gotten him laid if only he'd bothered to hang out with them. But you can't regret the life you didn't lead.)
~ Junot Diaz
We went back to her place on Handy and before I could really put a hurt on her she stopped everything, dragged me up from her toto by my ears. Why is this the face I can't seem to forget, even now, after all these years? Tired from working, swollen from lack of sleep, a crazy mixture of ferocity and vulnerability that was and shall ever be Lola.
~ Junot Diaz
una maldita borracha
~ Junot Diaz
no se puede lamentar la vida que no se vivió
~ Junot Diaz
We all do shit like this, stuff that's no good for you. You do it and then there's no feeling positive about it afterwards.
~ Junot Diaz
Maybe it was loss or love or some other word hat we say when it's too fucking late.
~ Junot Diaz
And if I could have I would have broken the entire length of my life across her face
~ Junot Diaz
I can see myself watching him shave every morning. And at other time I see us in that house and see how one bright day (or a day like this, so cold your mind shifts every time the wind does) he will wake up and decide it's all wrong. I'm sorry, he'll say. I have to leave now.
~ Junot Diaz
She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life
~ Junot Diaz
It was possible, he understood, for a person's life to become just a long series of mistakes, and that the end, when it came, was just one more instance in a chain of bad choices.
~ Justin Cronin
Would somebody please tell him whose idea it had been to kill the entire state of Colorado?
~ Justin Cronin
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~ Justin Cronin
No, there was no such thing as a good death.
~ Justin Cronin
The funny thing is, and speaking in hindsight, I had come to feel a certain fondness for the man. He was infuriating, yes, but his amiable manner made it impossible to dislike him. One rarely meets a person of such geniality, and I genuinely wished him no further ill. Nevertheless, I stabbed him.
~ Justin Cronin
In a hundred years, you get around to thinking about pretty much everything. All the things you did, the people you knew, the mistakes you made. The books you read, the music you listened to, how the sun felt, the rain. It's all still there inside you. But it's not enough, is it? That's the thing. The past is never enough.
~ Justin Cronin
It was possible, he understood, for a person's life to become just a long series of mistakes, and that the end, when it came, was just one more instance in a chain of bad choices. The thing was, most of these mistakes were actually borrowed from other people. You took their bad ideas and, for whatever reason, made them your own.
~ Justin Cronin
It's funny. You can live your whole life and then suddenly know that you didn't do it right at all
~ Justin Cronin